.... Senator Ed Markey and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries have introduced the Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014, a bill that would deploy the NTIA to "update a report on the use of telecommunications, including the Internet in the commission of hate crimes." As this report noted, lawmakers want to monitor and control speech on radio, television and the Internet for "hate" and material that government snoops deem to be encouraging "violent acts."

The Act does not specify what, exactly, constitutes "hate", but federal bureaucrats will make the call. In current conditions, as this report notes, "hate" can be anything less than worshipful of the current administration....